hay'dutsi'la: Turquoise Little Eagle

Hay’dutsi’la (by thinking with the mind)

According to our legends, hay'dutsi (thought) was the "first thing." Then there was tosok'jami (dream) This universe was not present, only hay'dutsi in the vastness. Thought thought and thought, "for a million years or more" and thought itself into voice. Thought thought voice should be pretty so changed to song. Song dreamed and sang "for a million years or more," then that which we are familiar with as the universe slowly began to appear.

Hay'dutsi'la means "by thinking." Anthropology will attempt to convince everyone that natives the world over are incapable of thought, but it is that study that in its rush to degrade natives has robbed the world of precious thought and dreams. Thought is the driving force of this hemispheric's indigenous, and has been for a very long time, dreams and thought. With this blog I expect to contact thinkers and dreaming children.

The European concept of native people being incapable of thought, by the Study of Man, and confused by the God-concepts that formed European thought, spread across the indigenous homelands, a blanket of hegemony, wounded by rote education, neglected in the realm of the great thinkers, Assigned a special place on the ladder of civilization, one step backwards and downwards, rendered mute by higher education and understood by the masses as frivolous or nonexistent, has caused native thought patterns the world-over to seek refuge in silence.

In that silence the study-of-man then finds a great arena where continuous and irreparable societal damage is constantly inflicted by the “learned” experts of the modern world.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Turquoise Little Eagle

PSUKITOK
(early spring)

AZTECA MEXICA
ANO NUEVO
National Hispanic University,
San Jose, CA
Mar 15-16, 2008
By
Sul’ma’ejote

It is true, brother sun smiled across eternity
Morning wind whipped across the valley from the hundred-hill-Sierra country
Sun listened hearing the rattles, the drums, the soft thunder of dancing feet
caressing sweet earth
He parted the clouds of morning
Looking with the eyes of his heart he saw earth-children casting sterling thoughts to outer-world as is our way
He saw a rainbow dancing around the hissing fire
Blue, purple, red, orange green, gold and silver
Sage perfume moved the good-heart-thoughts past the billowing clouds
Rain ceased
Dance to Universal Powers continued
Sun saw bronze bodies flashing in a great dance of happiness
and a baby sleeping, dreaming secrets to Aponi’ha* that we may never know
Sun also saw a turquoise eagle sparkling under the rain drops

As one, a thousand bronze-feathered Quetzalcoatl’s knelt before
the Great Powers governing life
The ancient song, the ancient rhythm, the ancient dream, the ancient thought moved north, south, east and west closer still
to mingle with Aponi’ha at sunrise
Rainbow thunder from earth came in a mist of spinning colors, feet touching Earth,
feathers caressing Universe
Rattle promises of tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

Sun whispered across forever, “There is but one,
One heart, one blood,
One people, one mind, one dream”
At that moment the seasons seemed younger than the dreaming baby

Under the snows upon the mountain Grandfather spoke saying

“It is true. Annikadel** sent hummingbird to sun
to place a bouquet there so rainbows,
the symbol of love, would forever arch across earth.
Love must be forever remembered as amazing, delicate, wonderful,
and above all things, precious”

And so it is
As Brother Sun and the Great Powers listened with one heart
they revealed a dream of the baby sleeping,
that rain would fall upon the flowers and blossoms of earth
And so it came to be
Colors flashed and feathers sparkled under the rain
Children dreamed of a greater goodness,
under the splashing sun and dripping rain of Psukitok

The outer-world watched Brother Sun cry for his heart was happy
Mother Earth promised to love all people for as long as the dance and the dream are in motion
Gedin’ch’lumnu (this must be so)

* Great Wonder, Great Mystery, Great Spirit, Great Power
** A great dreamer who dreamed the earth into being

For
Turquoise Little Eagle,
The Rumsen-Ohlone dancers,
and all of the dancers and dreamers of earth